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Friar's Hat is also called Bishop's Crown.

Will take pictures when ripe...

Thanks for the link.  Very interesting  

Friar's Hat is a new one for me. Any photos?

Great contributions, Galina. And wonderful to have the photos and the full histories, including the confusing ones!

And a third bean.  This one from Dutch seed saver Jaap Vlaming.  Musje Eikes, which apparently mean sparrow's egg. No! that can't be right said another Dutchman, it is Musseneitjes for sparrow's egg.  Ok, but I still have the original seed envelope with that spelling.  Then a third Dutch seedsaver helpfully came along and insisted it is the wrong bean, because the seed does not resemble a sparrow's egg and it must have been misnamed altogether.  Well there is nothing worse than a bean with a doubtful history, especially such a really good bean which is  thriving in this heat.  I have also grown this bean several times in England and it liked cooler, damper summers just the same.  So I can happily recommend it as a good bean for the circle, never mind its doubtful naming and history.

 

Another bean for the circle is Neckargold.  You would not believe that we have been picking this wigwam for our dinners for over a week already.  Very heavy bearing golden colour commercial pencil podded bean.  Neckar is a river in Germany.  Had to reinforce the wigwam too. 

Also hoping for seeds from Striped Nigerian Aubergine.  Very early and flowering white.  The fruits are egg shaped and sized and the striping is more pronounced on younger fruits. 

While looking up Caloro, came across this blog - https://bart-j-meijer-chillies.blogspot.com/ - sadly no longer updated but has lots of chilli information and even types I didn't know about.

Still have some Buena Mulata seeds left in the packet, so defo want to grow next year, I think. Beautiful plant.

Son is impressed with Friar's Hat plants, and the shape of the fruit.

I'm also growing Buena Mulata this year. It was kindly donated to the seed circle. I agree that it's prolific and a lovely purple colour.
We were lucky enough to go to Mexico,Oaxaca province, this last January, so I'm particularly enjoying growing some chillis from that part of the world, Chile de Agua, Chile de Arbol, Jalapeño and Pasilla de Oaxaca.

The greenhouse is looking lush, with tomatoes, aubergines, basils, and also chillies.

Trying some new ones this year, along with Friar's Hat which we grow in most years... So far, have harvested a couple of chillies of Caloro (in the yellow stage, edible raw!), and Buena Mulata (orange-ish). The latter seems prolific with the number of purple chillies on it. We have other chillies growing but haven't yet harvested. The chillies look nice - some thin and would be long if they didn't twist and turn, and little stumpy ones.

Definitely looking forward to growing this.  But I had several peppers this year I had to seed renew, so unfortunately they got delayed.  The colours are very striking, especially that dark purple before it finally reaches the red.